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Abril 23, 2007

A eco-religião exige sacrifícios humanos

Arquivado em: Ambiente, Economia, Internacional, Política, Religião — André Azevedo Alves @ 20:11

Baird tells senate Kyoto would wreck economy

The government would have to drive the country into a recession and Canadians would be faced with unemployment and soaring gas and energy prices in order to meet Kyoto commitments, the environment minister said Thursday.

The environment minister said that if C-288 became law, every Canadian family, business and industry would have to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by one-third starting in just eight months.

“There is only one way to make this happen, the government would need to manufacture a recession,” Mr. Baird warned.

He went on to outline some of the costs that he says would be borne by the entire economy and that would trickle down to every single Canadian.

Electricity bills, heating and gas prices would soar, businesses would have to scale back or cease production and that would lead to job losses for Canadians, according to Baird’s report.

“Our analysis shows that by 2009, over 275,000 Canadians working today would lose their jobs and become unemployed…I believe this is a massive and unacceptable cost for Canadian families,” he said.

He predicted that electricity bills would jump by 50 per cent after 2010, prices at the pump would shoot up by 60 per cent and natural gas prices to heat home would double.

(agradeço ao leitor Bruno Correia a indicação do link)

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  1. Sinto-me na obrigação de partilhar consigo isto: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/04/fuel.html

    Comentário por Jam — Abril 23, 2007 @ 22:56

  2. Objectively, John Baird is an idiot.

    Comentário por Filipe Brás Almeida — Abril 25, 2007 @ 00:22

  3. [...] The government would have to drive the country into a recession and Canadians would be faced with un… Autor: MS [...]

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